I honestly hate any cast-on where I can potentially stick a toe through, when the sock is finished.

I usually form a short-row toe, by doing a provisional cast on of half the required stitches (measure the ball of your foot - get gauge). Then short rowing my way up the toe, until I have about an 1 1/2 or so worth of stitches left, and then increasing my way back down. Then I'm left with the front side that I cast on, and a back side of an equal number of stitches. And all I have to do is release my provisional, pick up, and start knitting the foot. NO HOLESes in my toeses!

I honestly hate any cast-on where I can potentially stick a toe through, when the sock is finished.

I usually form a short-row toe, by doing a provisional cast on of half the required stitches (measure the ball of your foot - get gauge). Then short rowing my way up the toe, until I have about an 1 1/2 or so worth of stitches left, and then increasing my way back down. Then I'm left with the front side that I cast on, and a back side of an equal number of stitches. And all I have to do is release my provisional, pick up, and start knitting the foot. NO HOLESes in my toeses!

I've seen a video for this and wondered why do it that way. It's another thing I must try. I've not had problems with holes my toes go through from the cast on but I do sometimes get a bump that bothers my left little toe; maybe this would eliminate the bump that bothers me. The end stitches of the cast on don't always look like I want them to after I knit into them and maybe this would cure that too. Hmmmmm.

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Happiness is catching that dropped stitch while it's still fixable..

I've never had holes in my toes. What I started doing was just using KFB for increases on toes. It looks great and you never notice it. You just have to work it so you do the increase on one side one stitch in so they end up in the same place.

Here's what I do which is a rounded wedge toe using magic loop for MY size-

Using turkish toe cast on I cast on 16 (which puts 8 stitches on each needle)